environment + technology

Australia to Build World’s Largest Solar Power Plant

Just a quick post before I get on a plane: Australian company Solar Systems announced it will build a 154 megawatt solar power station in the state of Victoria. The company on Wednesday received a $AUS 75 million grant from the Australian federal government to fund construction. The Victorian state government is kicking in an additional $AUS 50 million.

Solar Systems’ plant, to be completed by 2013, will use Heliostat Concentrator Photovoltaic technology, developed in part with a subsidiary of Boeing. More on this when I land.

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Todd Woody, a veteran environmental journalist based in California who writes for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Grist and Yale e360. He's one of the few people on the planet who have held a northern hairy-nosed wombat in the wild.

Todd formerly was a senior editor at Fortune magazine, an assistant managing editor at Business 2.0 magazine and the business editor of the San Jose Mercury News.